Supplement to : new poetry no. 12

Index to Poets of 1922-26 and Field Notes by Mark Pirie

(Includes notes on poets: Bessie L Heighton, Una Auld/Una Currie, Ida M Lough/Ida M Withers, R D Brown, T E L Roberts, H H Heatley, H S Gipps, A Stanley Sherratt, Beryl Windsor, Grace Ross, E A Irwin, W J McKellow, Dorothy Reed, E F Owen, Aline Dunn, Sadie Uanson, G R Butler, Honor Gordon Coster/Honor Gordon Holmes, Pearl Noonan and H Tillman)

Published by The Night Press, Wellington

ISSN 1178-7805 (Print) ISSN 1178-7813 (Online) Publisher’s Note

This supplement to the special issue of broadsheet, no. 12, includes the full index to the Star Poets of Christchurch 1922-26 and the stats relating to their contributions to The Star.

It should be noted that I may have missed a few poems here and there as I’ve only checked Saturday publications of The Star for these years, and I can’t be certain that there weren’t occasional midweek publications of poems. Some issues like the supplement to Saturday 2 August 1924 were missing (in micro film runs) and it’s likely Sherratt’s 25th Polynesian legend (of the 30) appeared that weekend.

I’ve only included local NZ poets in the Index from the Saturday poetry page 'Among the Poets'. Overseas poets appeared as well, reproduced from overseas magazines and collections. These overseas poets are not in the Index. There were also two regular (unsigned) doggerel columns: 'Spindrifts' and 'Things Thoughtful' and I've not indexed these columns.

Also included are field notes. The notes provide all information gathered on 19 of the poets. The information is from official sources such as Papers Past (National Library of NZ’s digital archive), Archives NZ, NZ Electoral Rolls, Births, Deaths and Marriages, regional city council cemetery databases, TAPUHI (Turnbull Library Index), and the NZ Marriages CD-ROM, the NZ Biographies Index and the NZ National Bibliography and Online Catalogue at the National Library of New Zealand.

Thanks to Rowan Gibbs and Niel Wright for assistance with this publication.

Mark Pirie, August 2013 broadsheet 12 (November 2013 included the following):

H H Heatley H Tillman R D Brown Patricia Parker Sherratt W J McKellow E A Irwin Una Auld (nee Currie) Bessie L Heighton T E L Roberts Aline Dunn H S Gipps Ida M Lough (nee Withers) Honor Gordon Coster (nee Holmes) Chch Star Poets

1922-26 Full stats on local Star Poets 1922-26 Total 236 poems found: 1. Sherratt 36 poems contributed 2. Patricia Parker 31 3. Una Currie/Auld 23 4. Bessie L Heighton 18 5. T E L Roberts 18 6. H H Heatley 16 7. E A Irwin or E A I 11 8. A S C 8 9. R D Brown 5 10. Ida M Withers 5 11. W J McKellow 4 12. H S Gipps 4 13. Pearl Noonan 4 14. H Tillman or H T 4 15. M J 4 16. Anon 4 17. E F Owen 3 18. White Wings 2 19. Te Pana 2 20. Aline Dunn 2 21. R R M 2 22. L A Sunley 2 23. Bettie Riddell 2 24. Honor Gordon Holmes 2 25. Beryl Windsor or B W 2 26. H Girvan 1 27. L T 1 28. G R Butler 1 29. A G S 1 30. A J Graham 1 31. Tom Bracken 1 32. Grace Ross 1 33. F F 1 34. H A R 1 35. Jean Mather 1 36. Dorothy Reed 1 37. Sadie Uanson 1 38. Z 1 39. H Willis 1 40. Hiram Dunford 1 41. Chrystobel Bowen 1 42. Susan S Dromgoole 1 43. C C Matipo 1 44. Audrey Naumann 1 45. C S J 1 46. P T Hall 1 47. J Haughey 1 Index to Star Poets

1922 T E L Roberts, The Artist, 4 Nov 1922 Ida M Withers, Twilight, 2 Dec 1922 Chrystobel Bowen, The Flowers, 15 Dec 1922 (2nd Prize, Children's competition) Audrey Naumann, Fairy Fancies, 15 Dec 1922 (1st Prize, Children's competition) Una Currie/Auld, The Coming of the Pilgrims, 15 Dec 1922 (1st Prize, Poetry competition) Hiram Dunford, Tribute, 15 Dec 1922 (Special Prize, Poetry competition) Jean Mather, The Coming of the Pioneers, 15 Dec 1922 (Special Prize, Poetry competition) M J, Christmas Lilies, 16 Dec 1922 C S J, Scott's Monument, 23 Dec 1922

1923 Bettie Riddell, Rain Song, 6 Jan 1923 Bettie Riddell, Fulfilment, 6 Jan 1923 M J, The Cathedral Bells, 27 Jan 1923 Una Currie/Auld, Star-Song, 3 Feb 1923 T E L Roberts, The Song of the Reaper, 3 Feb 1923 Bessie L Heighton, Flowers, 10 Feb 1923 Una Currie/Auld, Sunset on the Spire, 24 Feb 1923 T E L Roberts, The Hills of Hundalee, 24 Feb 1923 P T Hall, The Port Hills, 3 March 1923 Anon, Our First New Zealand Sunset [12 Dec 1850], 3 March 1923 Te Pana, The Ship’s A-Calling, 10 March 1923 Bessie L Heighton, Autumn, 17 March 1923 T E L Roberts, The Maiden by the Stream, 17 March 1923 Una Currie/Auld, Beneath, 24 March 1923 T E L Roberts, After Thirty Years, 7 April 1923 Una Currie/Auld, Forever, 14 April 1923 Bessie L Heighton, The Nor-Wester, 14 April 1923 T E L Roberts, Autumn Winds, 21 April 1923 H H Heatley, Be Happy, 5 May 1923 H H Heatley, The School House by the Bush, 5 May 1923 H T, Cracroft Hill, 12 May 1923 H T, Winter, 26 May 1923 H H Heatley, Life, 2 June 1923 T E L Roberts, The Old Man Flood, 2 June 1923 R D Brown, Shag Rock, 9 June 1923 Una Currie/Auld, My Friend!, 9 June 1923 Tom Bracken, Spring, 16 June 1923 H H Heatley, The Home Life, 16 June 1923 H H Heatley, A Life Well Spent, 16 June 1923 Una Currie/Auld, The City of the Square, 23 June 1923 T E L Roberts, The Cup That Cheers, 23 June 1923 Una Currie/Auld, Latimer Square!, 30 June 1923 T E L Roberts, To the Rattle of the Hoofs, 7 July 1923 R D Brown, Florentine, 7 July 1923 Ida M Withers, [copy ripped, no title], 21 July 1923 Ida M Withers, Breath of Spring, 21 July 1923 R D Brown, Bellvue Spur, 28 July 1923 M J, Earth’s Music, 28 July 1923 Una Currie/Auld, The Mount, 4 Aug 1923 Una Currie/Auld, Somewhere, 4 Aug 1923 Bessie L Heighton, The Snowdrop, 4 Aug 1923 Ida M Withers, Our Gardener, 11 Aug 1923 Bessie L Heighton, Husheen, 11 Aug 1923 H H Heatley, Inamorata, 11 Aug 1923 Te Pana, A Tropic Night, 18 Aug 1923 Patricia Parker, From Gay to Grave, 18 Aug 1923 H T, Sunrise on the Plains, 25 Aug 1923 Patricia Parker, On a Wild Morning, 1 Sep 1923 Anon, Beside the River, 15 Sep 1923 Bessie L Heighton, Violets, 15 Sep 1923 H H Heatley, Nature’s Song, 15 Sep 1923 A G S, Spring Cometh, 15 Sep 1923 H H Heatley, When Granny Went Away, 22 Sep 1923 Sherratt, Psyche Bathing Amor, 22 Sep 1923 Sherratt, Small Things, 22 Sep 1923 R R M, To the Heathcote River, 6 Oct 1923 W J McKellow, The Song, 6 Oct 1923 Una Currie/Auld, To A.H., 6 Oct 1923 Sadie Uanson, On a Morn of Spring, 6 Oct 1923 E A I, Midnight Over Okain’s Bay, 13 Oct 1923 F F, Sunset and Love, 13 Oct 1923 A S C, Mother, 13 Oct 1923 H H Heatley, ‘Tis Good, 13 Oct 1923 Patricia Parker, The Springs of Strength, 20 Oct 1923 T E L Roberts, Sumner, 20 Oct 1923 H H Heatley, Bridge of Remembrance, 27 Oct 1923 Patricia Parker, Roses and Lilies, 27 Oct 1923 Una Currie/Auld, These –, 3 Nov 1923 Sherratt, Hawthorn, 3 Nov 1923 Patricia Parker, To a Tree in Springtime, 10 Nov 1923 H Willis, My Dream Home, 10 Nov 1923 R D Brown, The Great Out-Doors, 10 Nov 1923 R D Brown (? unsigned), Down by the Avon, 10 Nov 1923 Patricia Parker, Spirits of the Glen, 17 Nov 1923 Patricia Parker, Through Grey to Gold, 17 Nov 1923 Bessie L Heighton, Playmates, 17 Nov 1923 Bessie L Heighton, The Old Rocker, 24 Nov 1923 Patricia Parker, A Firelight Reverie, 8 Dec 1923 Bessie L Heighton, My Castle, 8 Dec 1923 Anon, Xmas Greetings from the Star [ballade], 14 Dec 1923 Honor Gordon Holmes, Springtime in Pigeon Bay, 14 Dec 1923 (1st prize, children's competition) J Haughey, The Boys out on the Farm, 14 Dec 1923 (2nd prize, children's competition) Ida M Withers, A Canterbury Summer, 14 Dec 1923 (2nd prize, Poem competition) E A Irwin, A Canterbury Summer, 14 Dec 1923 (3rd prize, Poem competition) Una Currie/Auld, A Canterbury Summer, 14 Dec 1923 (1st prize, Poem competition) Patricia Parker, The Spirit of Summer, 15 Dec 1923 Patricia Parker, Dawn from the Cashmere Hills, 22 Dec 1923 Una Currie/Auld, A Christmas Song, 22 Dec 1923 T E L Roberts, Redcliffs, 22 Dec 1923 Bessie L Heighton, At Fifty Years, 29 Dec 1923 Patricia Parker, When the Old Year Passes, 29 Dec 1923 1924

Una Currie/Auld, To my Uncle H E H, 5 Jan 1924 Patricia Parker, My Little Home, 5 Jan 1924 L A Sunley, Summer, 12 Jan 1924 L A Sunley, My Country, 12 Jan 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 1: Let there be light, 2 Feb 1924 Dorothy Reed, The State of Mind, 2 Feb 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 2: Tawhirimatea: The Storm God, 9 Feb 1924 Patricia Parker, A Bend in the Avon, 9 Feb 1924 Bessie L Heighton, Eventide, 9 Feb 1924 G R Butler, The Nor’Wester, 9 Feb 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 3: Tane Mahuta: God of Forests, 16 Feb 1924 Patricia Parker, To a Dewdrop, 16 Feb 1924 H H Heatley, As Comes the Light, 16 Feb 1924 Una Currie/Auld, To the Nurses, 16 Feb 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 4: Tu Matauenga: God of Mankind, 23 Feb 1924 Una Currie/Auld, Bein’ Pals, 23 Feb 1924 Aline Dunn, King of Space, 1 March 1924 H H Heatley, When Pride Rides High, 1 March 124 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 5: Maui-Tikitiki-a-Taranga, 1 March 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 6: Maui finds his father, Makea-tu-taru, and mother, Taranga, 8 March 1924 E A Irwin, Gran’fer, 8 March 1924 E A Irwin, Summer Dusk, 8 March 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 7: Maui’s Conquest of the Sun, 15 March 1924 E F Owen, Solitude, 15 March 1924 Pearl Noonan, The Common Things, 22 March 1924 Bessie L Heighton, Memories, 22 March 1924 Patricia Parker, Some Days There Are, 22 March 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 8: The Magic Hook of Maui, 22 March 1924 Una Currie/Auld, New Zealand, 29 March 1924 Sherratt, Age, 29 March 1924 E A Irwin, The Last Passage, 5 April 1924 Patricia Parker, The Path of Life, 5April 1924 Sherratt, Foundling Flower, 5 April 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 9: The Long Fish of Maui, 12 April 1924 E A Irwin, North Beach Lupins, 19 April 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 10: The Gods’ Vengeance, 19 April 1924 Aline Dunn, Glances, 19 April 1924 E F Owen, The Passing, 26 April 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 11: Maui Seeks the Goddess of Fire, 26 April 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 12: Mahu-ika: Goddess of Fire, 3 May 1924 Patricia Parker, The Advent of Autumn, 3 May 1924 Bessie L Heighton, Anzac Flowers, 3 May 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 13: Maui and the Flames of Mahu-ika, 10 May 1924 Patricia Parker, Voices of Silence, 10 May 1924 B W, An Autumn Song, 10 May 1924 Patricia Parker, Commune, 17 May 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 14: Tawhirimatea Saves Maui From the Flames, 17 May 1924 E F Owen, Wonders, 17 May 1924 Patricia Parker, If Only We Would Think, 24 May 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 15: Maui Falls Before the Hine-nui-te-po, Goddess of Death, 24 May 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 16: An Episode in the Life of Tawhaki, 31 May 1924 Patricia Parker, My Duty, 31 May 1924 E A Irwin, Poems, 31 May 1924 E A Irwin, Decline, 31 May 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 17: The Flood, 7 June 1924 Pearl Noonan, The Maori Story of the Clematis, 7 June 1924 H H Heatley, Autumn Tints, 14 June 1924 Patricia Parker, A Chant, 14 June 1924 H H Heatley, The Better Part, 14 June 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 18: Kae’s Theft of the Whale (Tutunui), 14 June 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 19: The Kidnapping of Kae, the Magician, 21 June 1924 W J McKellow, The Isles of Content, 21 June 1924 Patricia Parker, Consolation, 21 June 1924 Pearl Noonan, Flowers, 21 June 1924 E A Irwin, Old Home Town, 28 June 1924 Una Currie/Auld, A Far Land, 28 June 1924 White Wings, The Passing of the Clipper Ships, 28 June 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 20: The Execution of Kae by the Chief (Tiniaru), 28 June 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 21: The Legend of Rata, 5 July 1924 L T, Hills of Annat, 5 July 1924 Pearl Noonan, The Sea, 5 July 1924 W J McKellow, Song, 12 July 1924 Patricia Parker, Happiness, 12 July 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 22: Rata Slays Matukutakotako, the Murderer of His Father, 12 July 1924 H S Gipps, Christchurch, 12 July 1924 T E L Roberts, A Trip to Cheviot, 19 July 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 23: Rata Seeks a Canoe, 19 July 1924 A S C, Smile On, 19 July 1924 E A Irwin, Kapiti Island, 19 July 1924 W J McKellow, Home, 26 July 1924 H H Heatley, A Silent Tongue, 26 July 1924 A S C, The Power of Speech, 26 July 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 24: The Canoe, 26 July 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 25, 2 August 1924? Issue not on micro film Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 26: The Discovery of New Zealand by the Chief Ngahue (Aotearoa, Arahura and Wairere), 9 Aug 1924 Bessie L Heighton, After Twenty Years, 9 Aug 1924 Patricia Parker, Winter Music, 9 Aug 1924 A S C, Fireside Memories, 9 Aug 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 27: Hine-moa, the Maiden of Rotorua, 16 Aug 1924 H H Heatley, The Port Hills from the South, 16 Aug 1924 A S C, Judge Not the Weak, 16 Aug 1924 M J, To a Fendalton Thrush, 23 Aug 1924 Bessie L Heighton, Sunrise, 23 Aug 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 28: Net-Making Learned from the Fairies by Kahukura, 23 Aug 1924 A S C, Christchurch by Moonlight, 23 Aug 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 29: Te Kanawa and the Fairies of Puke-more, Waikato, 30 Aug 1924 E A Irwin, God’s Garden, 30 Aug 1924 T E L Roberts, Mount Pleasant, 30 Aug 1924 A S C, Two Houses, 6 Sep 1924 Sherratt, Polynesian Legends 30: The Sorcerer Kiki is Slain by the Chief Tamure of Kawhia, 6 Sep 1924 Patricia Parker, Inviolate, 6 Sep 1924 T E L Roberts, Old Cheviot Hills, 20 Sep 1924 H S Gipps, Friendship, 11 Oct 1924 Patricia Parker, Glad Tidings, 11 Oct 1924 A S C, The Avon-Our Heritage, 11 Oct 1924 Patricia Parker, Witch’s Hill, 1 Nov 1924 Z, Healing, 1 Nov 1924 Bessie L Heighton, Willow Song, 1 Nov 1924 R R M, On Flowers, 1 Nov 1924 T E L Roberts, From the Cave Rock Sumner, 8 Nov 1924 Una Currie/Auld, The Night, 15 Nov 1924 Grace Ross, Bubbles, 15 Nov 1924 Patricia Parker, The Awakening, 15 Nov 1924 Patricia Parker, Sunset, 22 Nov 1924 Una Currie/Auld, Words, 22 Nov 1924 White Wings, Sailors Old and New, 22 Nov 1924 H A R, Sumner, 22 Nov 1924 H S Gipps, After, 29 Nov 1924 H S Gipps (? unsigned), Mother’s Message, 29 Nov 1924 Patricia Parker, Clouds of Spring, 29 Nov 1924 Beryl Windsor, An Acrostic Poem, 12 Dec 1924 H Girvan, Christchurch, 12 Dec 1924 (1st prize, poem competition) A J Graham, Christchurch, 12 Dec 1924 (2nd prize, poem competition) A Stanley Sherratt, Sonnet to Christchurch, 12 Dec 1924 (3rd prize, poem competition) Honor Gordon Holmes, Goodbye to Holmes’s Bay, 12 Dec 1924 (1st prize, children's competition).

1925 Una Currie/Auld, Medley, 17 Jan 1925 Bessie L Heighton, Autumn, 7 Feb 1925 Bessie L Heighton, The Ego, 28 March 1925 T E L Roberts, The Kaikoura Coast, 4 April 1925 Una Currie/Auld, Easter Lilies, 11 April 1925 CC Matipo, Christchurch Avon River, 9 May 1925 Susan S Dromgoole, A Tribute to the Men of Lyttelton, 24 April 1925 H Tillman, New Paths, 31 Oct 1925

1926 Anon, Ballad of the Boyd, 13 February 1926 T E L Roberts, The Hills of Home, 24 April 1926 T E L Roberts, The Spell of Flowers, 22 May 1926

Field Notes on Star poets

Bessie L. Heighton (in NZ Biographies Index)

Bessie Langley d. 1959 75 years b. 1884 Brother Allan Langley Heighton pub. Poetical Posies 1946 anth. Eight Quills 1950 pub. in Ellesmere Guardian, Star and in NZ Railways Mag Aug.1933 (on NZETC), and in Wooden Horse (magazine).

Anthology: Eight quills: Laura May Strachan, Mabel Christmas-Harvey, Dorothy Bell, Bessie Heighton, Azile Matson, Amy Jane Watt, Emily Hill [and] Corrie Aslin McLaren. Publisher: Christchurch, N.Z., Canterbury Centennial, 1950.

Heighton papers held by the Turnbull Library, Wellington

Electoral Rolls: Chch South 1905-06-1935 Fendalton 1946-1949 Sydenham 1954 Chch Central 1957

Surname: Heighton First name(s): Bessy Langley Date of death: Sunday, 20 September 1959 Cemetery: Bromley Date of burial: Tuesday, 22 September 1959 Block number: 41 Plot number: 20 Age: 75 years Address: 126 St Asaph St, ChCh Occupation: Spinster Place of birth: Christchurch, NZ Years in New 75 Zealand:

Una Currie / Una Auld

Birth 1904 Parents Anne Elizabeth and James Educated Christchurch was a prolific contributor of verses to the Chch Star. Una Currie Chch Tech College 1920 then in Auckland 1920s a journalist/writer. Australian papers The Bulletin, New Zealand Best Poems (1930s) Evening Post…Akld Star, NZ Railways Magazine, “Postscripts”. Also wrote stories. Widely anthologised in Kowhai Gold (1930), A Gift Book of NZ Verse (c1931). As ‘Una Auld’ in Here are Verses (1937) and NZ Farm & Station Verse (1950s). NZ Electoral Rolls 1928-48 Auckland. Married 1932 to John Auld a politician. Became known as Una Auld. Moved to Sydney 1949 Una Auld is Macquarie then Wentworth, Werriwa, Macarthur, East Sydney and West Sydney, New South Wales 1949 until 1963, the year her book of fiction was published in London. Fiction Book: Dr. Duncan’s Tropical Nurse 1963 Death 1965 Sydney, NSW, Australia After death: ’s 100 New Zealand Poems (1994) and 121 New Zealand Poems (2005).

T E L Roberts

Thomas Edward Lloyd d. 1952 79 years b. Sefton 1873 (in NZ Biographies Index) authored several titles incl. memoirs of Seddon and Motunau Beyond the Hills of Hundalee and Motunau, or The Hills of Home reprinted 1998 Rimu and Rata 1920 verse; By the Wayside verse pamphlet in Turnbull includes one of his poems Pub. Ellesmere Guardian, Star Reviews of Rimu and Rata: 3 July 1920 ; 24 July 1920 NZ Herald; 3 July 1920 Dominion In Author’s Week 1936 In Who’s Who in New Zealand 1951

Bio notes: Waipara County Council 1914-17 Exec. Member Farmers’ Union Pres. Waikari Valley Sheepowners’ Assn. Sec. Meat Producers’ Union Member of Settler family arrived in 1862 in Sefton, Canty. Employed at father’s property as young man Lived in Happy Valley, Cheviot, Stonyhurst and Cabbage Tree Flat Wool fleece seller Visited Britain and France in 1905 Bought land at Scargill, Southland, 1908 - Founded Scargill Horticultural Society

Electoral rolls: Ashley, Canterbury, 1896 Wairau, Marlborough 1900 Waitaki, Otago 1905-06

Hurunui 1911-1914 Avon 1919 Hurunui 1928-1938 Lyttelton 1946

Surname: Roberts First name(s): Thomas Edward Lloyd Date of death: Friday, 18 April 1952 Cemetery: Bromley Date of burial: Monday, 21 April 1952 Block number: 30 Plot number: 177SS Age: 79 years Address: 118 Esplanade, Sumner, ChCh Occupation: Retired Farmer Place of birth: Sefton, NZ Years in New 79 Zealand:

Sherratt = Alfred Stanley Sherratt b.1891 d. 1977

Electoral Roll: Chch South 1919-1938

A mill hand at Kaiapoi Clerk at Chch

E F Owen

Ernest Frederick d. 1962 93 years b.1869 Surrey, England (1871 Census)

British Army WWI Medals 1914-1920

Managing Director of Sydenham Supply Stores Vice-Pres. Sydenham Football Club 1920 - flute player, actor, storyteller Trinity Church Sydenham Congregation Chch - poetry in Star (Chch) - contributed “Pakeha” 17th reinforcements Journal (copy in Turnbull), gave fragments of a Zeppelin destroyed over Potters Park to Canty Museum 1918 on Chch Electoral Rolls 1890-1957

Aline Dunn d. 1979 86 years b. 15 January 1893 born Australia – actress 1915-25 con. Star

1914-1978 Chch rolls

Surname: Dunn First name(s): Aline Date of death: Wednesday, 11 April 1979 Cemetery: Ruru Lawn Date of burial: Thursday, 12 April 1979 Block number: 40 Plot number: 299 Age: 86 years Address: [For privacy reasons this address is not displayed] Occupation: Spinster Place of birth: New South Wales, Australia Years in New 80 Zealand:

H H Heatley

Henry Herbert Heatley d. 1946 77 years b. 1868 parents Alice Jane/Abraham Henry

– pub.in Temuka Leader, Ashburton Guardian, Ellesmere Guardian, Star

Electoral Rolls: 1890-1896 Geraldine wheelright? Geraldine Road/Land Board Temuka Road Board 1897 1900 Ashburton sales branch manager for R Lochead Dunedin 1905-06 Chch East roll 1911-1919 Avon roll 1928 Chch North roll 1935-38 Kaiapoi roll

E A Irwin

Edward Arthur d. 1941 68 years b. 1873 Cumberland, England (1881, 1891 Census)

Electoral Rolls: 1919-1938 Lyttelton roll 1905-1914 Timaru roll work: Royal Boot House shoe salesman 1898-1918 Timaru Wesleyan Methodist Church Police constable, Lyttelton

H S Gipps

Henry Stansfield d. 1944 79 years b. 1865? Midlothian, Scotland (1871 Scotland Census)

– settler Wakapuaka

Electoral Rolls: 1890 Waimea-Picton roll 1896-1938 Nelson roll

Nelson SPCA Nelson Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association con. Evening Post Postscripts, Star, Nelson Evening Mail

Age: 79 years

Given HENRY STANSFIELD Date Deceased: 21/01/1944 Names:

Address: Interment Date: 22/01/1944

Gender: M

W J McKellow

William James Aubrey d. 1939 52 years b. 1887? 1928 Avon roll – machinist

Beryl Windsor

Beryl Bernadine Jean Windsor d. 1985 b. 27 May 1888

- playwright 1940 “Complications” Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 104, 29 October 1940, Page 5 St James Hall, Lower Hutt Methodist Church Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society acting 1939 (Mrs. Beryl Windsor), second prize Dramatic Poem in recent 2YA Poetry Competition). Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 15 April 1929, Page 5 Humorous Recitations: Chch 3YA Radio 1929

Electoral Rolls: Chch East 1914 Chch North 1919 Westland 1928 Chch East 1935 Avon 1938-1972

(Winifred?) Grace Ross d. 1994 b. 1 Feb 1901

-school teacher’s certificate 1922 -Directed children’s dancing exhibition Even. Post 1931

Electoral Rolls Winifred Ross 1935 Riccarton, 1938 Kaiapoi

H Tillman (in NZ Biographies Index) d. 1957 b. 1882? Age 75 years

Pub. Great men of New Zealand rugby / Author: Tillman, H. Published: Christchurch [N.Z.] : Lancaster Press, 1957.

Obit. Evening Post 31 May 1957; incl. in Ron Palenski's Touchlines 2013 rugby poetry

Electoral Rolls Chch North 1905-1911? Lyttelton 1911-1914? Riccarton 1919-1938 Selwyn 1946-49 Fendalton 1954

G R Butler

Solicitor/Lawyer Artist/Poet Letter to Editor, , Volume LIV, Issue 16149, 1 March 1918, Page 5 Sadie Uanson

Children’s verse Ashburton Guardian 1911-12 – overseas Australian correspondent

Dorothy Reed

Possible: Miss Dorothy Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Reed, of Merivale Lane, [married] to Major A. C Macdonald, M.C., fourth son of Mr. Angus Macdonald, of Invercargill.

Ida M Withers/ Ida M Lough (in NZ Biographies Index)

Ida Mary Withers b. 1903 d. 1985

A young New Zealander, Miss Ida Withers, of Christchurch, is marking out a path for herself in literary fields in the Old World writes an exchange. Miss Withers writes charming child verse, and some of her work has recently been accepted by the Oxford University Press, and will be published shortly. For some time past Miss Withers has contributed stories and verse to the New Zealand and Australian magazines and papers. Miss Withers is a daughter of Mrs A. R. Pritchard of Duvauchelle and received part of her education at the Duvauchelle’s school and the above flattering notice about her verse will be of interest to a number of our readers.

Chch born and educated then in Auckland in the 1930s as a music composer and piano soloist, lived in England in France, was intending a further tour of England and the continent in the late 1930s.

Miss Withers spent four years in England and France on her last trip, during which time she wrote a book of stories, was almost killed by a motor car on one of England's "quiet country roads," lost her British passport in a frontier town in France, and met with many and varied experiences. On this trip Miss Withers and Mrs. Pritchard [her mother] hope to motor through the British Isles, seeing many of the old favourites, and lots of new places. They will motor through France and Germany, Italy, Austria, Dalmatia, during which time Miss Withers hopes to find new backgrounds for a further lot of stories to follow those centred round Rouen.

Also in Kowhai Gold 1930 See Te Ara online encyclopedia for biography entry as Ida M Lough

Long ago in Rouen / Author Withers, Ida, M. Contributor Salcedo, Maggie. Published New York; London: Oxford University Press, 1937. Description 96 p.: ill. (some col.); 20 cm. About Short stories. France--Fiction. Children's stories, New Zealand. R D Brown (in NZ Biographies Index)

Born 1887 Mother Helen and Robert father. Wellington 1910 before the war. Corporal R D Brown – WWI Honours List. NZEF 26th Reinforcements - rose to Sergeant. MARRIAGE. BROWN—THOMSON.-On March 29 1920, at St. Andrew’s Church, Wellington, by the Rev. S. Robertson Orr, Robert Douglas Brown, eldest son of Mrs Helen Brown, of Napier, to Margaret, younger daughter of the late J. W. Thomson, Clutha. The wedding is of interest to soldiers and war workers, both, at Home and throughout the Dominion, the bride having held a responsible position in the War Contingents' Association in London during the war. The Rev. Robertson Orr officiated at the wedding ceremony, and the bride and bridegroom left later for the North. Lived in or visited Christchurch. 1923? Hawke’s Bay Aero Club 1930s Electoral Rolls 1928-1938 Hawke’s Bay /Hastings 1946-63 Accountant – ran for National Party, member of County Councils 1941 Death 1966 aged 78 years. Mayor of Hastings 1957-60. Obits. in Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune and Napier Daily Telegraph March 1966

Pearl Noonan

Possibly Violet Pearl Noonan b. 1908? 16 years at the time of writing her Star poems Lived at North Beach.

Honor Gordon Holmes

Honor Gordon Coster (nee Holmes) (1911-1953) contributed verses to the Star from ‘Holmes’ Bay’, Pigeon Bay, Banks Pensinsula, winning the children’s poem competition in December 1923 and December 1924. She moved to Auckland and attended Epsom Girls’ Grammar School and Pukekohe Technical High School. She lived in Auckland till the end of the Thirties. She married James Alan Coster in 1938 and lived in Northland.